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This is the introduction to our series What is The Green Button API initiative and How It Took OAuth To An Entirely New Level. This article will help you understand what the Green Button API Initiative is and how it came about. Green Button is part of the Obama Administration's My Data initiatives.

This is the first part of our series What is The Green Button API initiative and How It Took OAuth To An Entirely New Level. In this part we will take a look at some of the primary use cases of the initiative including the data custodian, third party entities and retail customers.

This is part 2 of our series on the Green Button API initiative. This article examines the architectural underpinnings, including the requirements and standards behind the initiative. The Green Button technology is based on existing standards that were assembled to meet the identified requirements.

This is part 3 of our series on the U.S. government's Green Button API initiative. In this part, we will describe the building blocks of Green Button technology and how they respond to the project requirements with respect to authorization of access to data provided to third parties.

This is part 4 of our series What is The Green Button API initiative and How It Took OAuth To An Entirely New Level. In this part we explain the structure of Green Buttons’ scope parameters and illustrate the data exchanges and protocol used to implement Green Button’s scope negotiation.

This is part 5 of our series What is The Green Button API initiative and How It Took OAuth To An Entirely New Level. Here, we look at how Green Button data, due to its regularly renewed nature needed to adopt a pseudo PUSH model that was consistent with the OAuth resource data exchange model.

This is the conclusion to our series What is The Green Button API initiative and How It Took OAuth To An Entirely New Level. It provides a set of references for enriched additional information for the reader about technologies and choices made in the design of the Green Button architecture.

Stripe has announced that version 1.1.0 of its Android SDK is now available. The new release includes both new features and bug fixes. New features include threading control, brand instead of type for cards, card funding source, and Javadoc. The latest library is available at GitHub for download.

The Bluetooth 5 specification, published today by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, paves the way toward new and exciting destinations on the information superhighway. In particular, the spec targets the Internet of Things with improvements to range, speed, security, and capacity.

Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Events, Financial, Cities, and Internet of Things. Featured today are two APIs that provide debt and securities data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.